A type of corn on its way to becoming obsolete is getting a lifeline: It could be a key to making the beef industry greener, reports Bloomberg.
Swiss-based Syngenta Group’s Enogen seeds is a brand of corn used for ethanol production that seemed to be on its way out as biofuels demand took a dive during the pandemic. But a recent study discovered that when fed to cattle, the corn improved efficiency in beef output by 5%.
For a thousand cattle, that means a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions equal to removing 35 cars from roads for a year, or sparing 50 football fields of feed crops in a year, the company said.
Enogen seeds may have soon phased out if it wasn’t for the unintentional find, Justin Wolfe, Syngenta’s regional director of North America seeds, told Bloomberg.
